"40 days and 40 nights," multiple lazaruses, all the things that confuse and amuse modern people: they served a purpose.
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Oral traditions offer a window into both information theory and human communication.
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Each one reflects countless generations of trial-and-error honing of information theoretic techniques to maximize channel capacity.
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People who had no clue what calculus was, who couldn't even read, figured out the hard way how to encode a message for minimal error.
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People encoded their signals so robustly that they survived wars, famines, near exterminations
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Some signals were encoded so well that only a handful of people were necessary for their transmission.
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Oral traditions survived countless local apocalypses, due to robust encoding schemes evolved organically.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_cha
Look at how many levels of encoding went into the vedic oral tradition
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Each syllable was robustly encoded multiple ways.
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Each syllable was subject to both error detecting and error correcting codes, optimized for how humans process language.
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